Nigeria Senate has urged the
Federal Government to formulate policy that would integrate almajiris into the
educational system in order to mop them from street begging.
Sponsor of the motion, Senator
Sankara Abdullahi, representing Jigawa North-west Senatorial district alongside
28 others, expressed concern that street begging by the almajiris has been on
the exponential increase.
The motion said, street begging
was not only a scourge in Nigeria, but begging activities has extended to
worship centres, thereby making it look like an Islamic culture.
“Notes with concern the
exponential increase in the scourge of street begging and the nuisance it
constitutes on the streets of major cities across the country. ”
Senator Sankara said begging used
to be an activity of the physically challenged in the past, but has changed to
corporate form as a result of sympathy of the society.
According to him, corporate
beggars in Nigeria have taken advantage of begging to perpetuate crimes and
remain jobless because they were getting cheap assistance.
In his contribution, Senator
Rochas Okorocha expressed that the FG needed to awake to her responsibility in
providing quality education to these set of people.
He said, as a philanthropist, he
has been taxed hugely while providing free education for the less-privileged in
the society through his foundation.
Adopting the motion after
contributions by some Senators, Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan called
on the Federal Government to provide vocational training centres.
“The Federal and State
governments should set up vocational training centres to provide beggars with
alternative means of livelihood thereby making them useful to the society. “
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